Rosemary and Time, based on a true story, is about two women, working side by side in a school infirmary who discover a startling truth about one another. Set in Yorkshire England in the late 1970’s, with flashbacks to 1941, the two women unearth secrets from the past and come to terms with ghosts, old relationships and time.

The production is led by Broadway veteran, Judith Barcroft, whose Broadway credits include, Dinner at Eight, Mating Dance, Betrayal, Elephant Man, All God’s Chillun Got Wings, Shimada and Plaza Suite. The company features Kate Grimes (Stephen Spielberg’s upcoming film THE POST), Mary Kate Harris (I Create/Lincoln Center’s Clark Theater), Michael Markham (Mother Courage and Her Children with Meryl Streep/The New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park), Virginia Roncetti (A Brush with Georgia O’Keeffe/St. Luke's Theatre), Zoe Watkins (The Pigeon In The Taj Mahal/Irish Repertory Theatre), and introducing Eliana Grace Brenden (Diva Centipede in James and the Giant Peach), and Ciela Elliott (Occupied Territories/59E59)The creative teams includes lighting design by Kia Rogers, scenic and costume design by An-Lin Dauber, sound design by Megan Culley, stage management by Ashely Nickas, production photography by Gerry Goodstein, with Nancy Nagrant serving as co-producer.

Performances take place at the Paradise Factory Theatre Main Stage, 64 East 4th Street (between Bowery and 2nd Avenue).  For Tickets and Info: www.rosemaryandtimetheplay.com

Kathy Directs Readings of Six New Short Plays for Sheen Center Theater Festival!

Join us for an event designed to showcase the voices and skills of a new generation of Catholic playwrights.

The mission of the inaugural Sheen Center Theater Festival is to share the work of emerging playwrights with the wider industry and theater audience.

Plays and playwrights selected to participate in this first-ever playwriting festival are:

The Lepers by Daniel Damiano
Miss Ruby by Kelley Nicole Girod
Amends by Joe Hoover, S.J.
The Shooter by Kimberly Kalaja
The Drill by Laura Pittenger
More Human by Emily C.A. Snyder

The works will be directed by Kathy Gail MacGowan and produced for The Sheen Center by Kelley Nicole Girod.

Plays will be presented together on both Saturday, July 8th at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, July 9th at 2:00 p.m. in the Black Box Theater.

Running time will be 90 minutes.

The Sunday performance will be followed by an hour-long playwrights' panel at 3:30 p.m. with a tea and biscuits reception.

In an innovative performance, actors and musicians share the stage to tell the story of a young actress who leaves her rural Kentucky home for New York, where she is raped in a parking lot.

A struggling family discovers that a painting brought home by Grandpa George, a hero of WWII, is worth a million bucks... and was stolen from a victim of the Holocaust.